Release 13.9.0 RC1 · WordPress/gutenberg

Changelog

Enhancements

Style engine: Prettify combined selectors. (43003)
Style engine: Prettify output. (42909)
Style engine: Rename global function. (42719)
Shortcuts: Add Ctrl+Y for redo on Windows. (42627)

Components

BaseControl: Add box-sizing resets. (42889)
BorderControl: Add box sizing reset. (42754)
BoxControl: Export applyValueToSides util function. (42733)
ComboboxControl and FormTokenField: Enhance components with custom render callback for options. (42597)
ComboboxControl: Add support for uncontrolled mode. (42752)
Flex: Convert component to TypeScript. (42537)
FontSizePicker: Add 40px size variant. (42716)
Placeholder: Convert component to TypeScript. (42990)
Popover: Rewrite Storybook examples using controls. (42903)
Popover: Tidy up code 🧹 , add more comments. (42944)
ResizableBox: Change tooltip background to match other tooltips. (42800)
Storybook: Add global CSS switcher. (42747)
StyleProvider: Convert component to TypeScript. (42541)
Swatch: Convert component to TypeScript. (42162)
Tooltip (Experimental), CustomSelectControl, TimePicker: add missing font sizes which were necessary in non-WordPress contexts. (42844)
Typography Panel: Fix font appearance control width. (42795)
UnitControl: Update unit dropdown design. (42000)
Update control labels to the new uppercase styles. (42789)

Block Library

Archives: Add a control to make block's dropdown label invisible. (43025)
Query Title: Add a search title variation. (42662)
Media&Text: Add help to ImageSizeControl. (40642)
Post Author: Rendering html for the author description at the editor. (42109)
Post Featured Image: Add link target and rel attributes. (42853)

CSS & Styling

Rename solid color. (42918)
Try: Tab style subpixel fix. (42892)

Site Editor

Add: Author nicename template creation ability. (42165)
[Site Editor]: Add fallback template content on creation. (42520)

Block Directory

Modernize DownloadableBlockListItem tests. (43026)

List View

List View Expander: Fix icon in RTL mode. (42997)

Global Styles

Layout: Add a disable-layout-styles theme supports flag to opt out of all layout styles. (42544)

Block Editor

Rich text: Add character shortcuts for wrapping selection. (42469)

Document Settings

Post Template: Update template title selector. (42091)

Design Tools

Cover: Show Resize Tooltip on Drag. (23522)
Update color button style. (41838)
Add explicit bypass for fluid font size calculation. (42757)

Bug Fixes

Block Styles: Truncate long button labels. (42975)
ColorGradientControl: Fix awkward padding in popover. (43018)
Create Block: Remove i18n references from save properties. (43035)
Firefox: Fix issue where it selects a nearby contentEditable. (42777)
Layout: Fix flex direction column. (42939)
List v2: Fix Cmd+A. (42858)
Style Engine: Include 6.1 CSS filter, ensure style engine can output CSS functions like clamp. (43004)
Style engine: Disable stylesheet optimization temporarily. (43051)

Block Library

Navigation: Fix invalid permissions warning by avoiding using trashed wp_navigation posts (JS implementation). (42982)
Disabled blocks passed to BlockTypesList are no longer draggable. (42751)
Fix drag and drop performance when dragging over the insertion point. (42806)
Social Link: add missing 'width' and 'height' attributes. (41373)
Separator: Fix the block CSS classes in the editor. (42769)
Tag Cloud: Fix alignment issue when align center. (43017)
Navigation: Fix current-menu-item class logic. (42849)
Media&Text: Round position attribute on focal point save. (33915)
Social: Include has-visible-labels on edit component. (42791)
Writing flow: Fix Shift+Arrow partial selection for lists & quote. (42885)
LatestPost: Fix issue with floated featured images overflowing focus style. (40663)

Components

ColorPicker: Fix layout overflow. (42992)
External link component: Add a check for on page anchor links. (42259)
Icons: Fix storybook library icon names. (43034)
InputControl: Fix incorrect size prop passing to Text. (42793)
Popover: Anchor correctly to parent node when no explicit anchor is passed. (42971)
Popover: Fix arrow placement and design. (42874)
Popover: Improve iframe offset computation. (42417)
Popover: Make sure that ownerDocument is always defined. (42886)
InputControl: Fix acceptance of falsy values in controlled updates. (42484)

Block Editor

Inserter: Avoid warning when CRA is displayed. (42723)
Pasting: Dismiss pasted image if file:// schema detected. (42785)
Prevent multiselection via dragging when already dragging blocks. (42877)
Quote: Fix raw transform handler. (43093)
Rich text: Fix error when attempting to remove placeholder on composition start. (42821)

Global Styles

Fix styles declarations returning before all properties output. (42954)
Fluid typography: Migrate fluid typography algorithm to JS for site editor. (42688)
Spacing presets: Prevent % spacing size units being stripped by sanitize_title. (43101)
Specify priority in remove_action. (43073)

Build Tooling

Fix: CSS files don't build in dev mode on Windows. (42041)
Fix: Script name error in main package.json. (43089)

Accessibility

Fix issue where changing the id of the recursion provider can result in focus loss. (42916)
Site Editor: Don't disable the Save button. (42842)

CSS & Styling

Layout: Merge CSS rule for block gap. (43052)

Testing

Fix: Just another end-to-end test. (42947)

Document Settings

Decode the post URL for the button label. (42930)

Site Editor

Internalization fixes for site editor template creation. (42762)

Performance

Lodash: Refactor away from _.isMatch(). (42271)
Lodash: Refactor away from _.zip(). (42926)
Lodash: Remove completely from @wordpress/dom package. (42912)
Lodash: Remove completely from @wordpress/element package. (42898)

Components

Lodash: Refactor away from _.delay(). (42966)
Lodash: Refactor away from _.startsWith(). (43019)

Block Library

Refactor Calendar block away from moment. (43029)

Accessibility

Lodash: Refactor away from _.maxBy(). (42914)

Data Layer

Lodash: Refactor away from _.isPlainObject(). (42508)

Experiments

Style engine: Enqueue block support styles. (42452) (42880)
Combine style-engine stores for block-supports. (42970)
Style engine: Add optimize flag and combine functions into wp_style_engine_get_stylesheet. (42878)

Documentation

Add examples for core/blocks actions. (42637)
Add examples for core/viewport package. (42921)
Added the allowedFormat details in richtext readme. (42426)
Adding @example entries to the public API exposed in core/blocks. (42745)
Cover: Fix rendered content PHPDoc type. (43099)
Create Block: Update document links in templates. (42839)
Docs: Fix return type of home link attribute function. (42901)
Docs: Fix textual consistency about block attributes. (43075)
Docs: Link plugins GitHub release pages. (42736)
Document the cherry-picking automation. (42932)
Fixed broken external link to Mozilla Developer documentation. (43065)
Release Docs: Troubleshooting failed "Bump version" job. (42936)
Release docs: Update performance test instructions. (43015)
Remove the emoji characters to fix the handbook rendering. (43028)
Update broken internal link. (43094)
Update theme-json.md to include new element support and :Ref. (42412)
[Gutenberg Data Tutorial] Adjust the image URLs and whitespace to render correctly in the Handbook. (42969)

Code Quality

Add mutations data and helper functions to useEntityRecord. (39595)
Remove old WordPress 5.8 code. (42818)

Block Library

Add separate callbacks for selecting a classic or navigation menu in the nav block. (43057)
Avoid reliance on status constants when consuming useCreateNavigationMenu hook. (42704)
Home Link: Use 'sprintf' in the render callback. (43024)
Nav block: Extract hook for inner blocks. (42743)
Nav block: Normalize to function expressions. (42744)
Normalize usage of Notifications in Nav block. (42706)
Remove duplicate speak calls from navigation block. (43079)
Site Title: Use home_url instead of get_bloginfo. (42857)

Site Editor

Navigation Menu Sidebar: Remove unnecessary Fragment. (43021)

Global Styles

useGlobalStylesOutput: Use memo for derived values. (42917)

Tools

Use git for wp-env's default WordPress version. (42826)

Testing

Migrate deprecated node matcher tests to playwright. (42759)
Migrate group block tests to Playwright. (42801)
Migrate missing block tests to Playwright. (41680)
Migrate Convert Block Type test to Playwright. (42760)

Build Tooling

Lodash: Refactor away from _.flatMap(). (42360)
Standardize script naming in main package.json. (42368)

Block Library

Nav block: Move overlay colors to the responsive wrapper. (42875)
Navigation block: Extract navigation block utils. (42865)
Navigation: Overlay: Fix link inheritance. (42929)
Page List: Fix indentation in PHP file. (42852)
Query Pagination: Correctly position the "next" link on the first page. (42764)
Search Block: Remove margins from the input. (42959)
Transforms: Add group unwrap. (42685)
[Post Title]: Do not add rel attribute if empty. (42855)
[Query Loop]: Try filters with ToolsPanel. (42629)

Global Styles

Add block spacing to root block support UI. (42797)
Elements: Update the load order of the CSS in the Site Editor. (42863)
Heading element UI controls. (42176)
Theme JSON: Add a static $blocks_metadata data definition to the Gutenberg instance of WP_Theme_JSON. (42776)
Upsize typography panel components. (42718)

Widgets Editor

Format Library: Add missing keyboard shortcut description in customizer widget. (43044)

Reusable Blocks

Make template part and reusable block creation language consistent. (43032)

CSS & Styling

Navigation: Try to keep :Where just for paddings. (42967)

Accessibility

Change shortcut text for redo tooltip on Windows. (42830)

Block Editor

Quote: Unwrap on Backspace at start. (42808)

Site Editor

Add a 'View Site' link in the site editor. (42331)

Full Site Editing

[Full Site Editing]: Update clear customizations copy for templates. (41765)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

@fellyph: Rendering html for the author description at the editor. (42109)
@merkys7: Fix social-link block missing 'width' and 'height' attributes. (41373)
@Smit2808: Added the allowedFormat details in richtext readme. (42426)
@theminaldiwan: Fixed alignment issue of tagcloud block when align center. (43017)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @adamziel @andrewserong @aristath @carolinan @chad1008 @ciampo @derekblank @dougwollison @ellatrix @fellyph @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @ItsJonQ @jameskoster @jasmussen @jorgefilipecosta @JustinyAhin @kjohnson @Mamaduka @manzoorwanijk @matiasbenedetto @mcsf @merkys7 @mikachan @mirka @noahtallen @ntsekouras @pavanpatil1 @pooja-muchandikar @ramonjd @ryanwelcher @SavPhill @scruffian @shimotmk @SiobhyB @Smit2808 @Soean @stokesman @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @theminaldiwan @tyxla @walbo